City Eye: Facts on a plate: our population is at least 77 million

Monday, 08 December 2014 16:50

It is the statistic that dare not speak its name, though eventually it must. It has huge ramifications for the civil and political life of this country, the health of the equity markets and, most immediately, the residential property market. So don't forget you read it here first: the population of the UK is presently somewhere between 77 and 80 million.

EU plans for Robin Hood tax fall into disarray

Tuesday, 09 December 2014 15:44

Finance ministers have failed to reach agreements on the structure of a tax on financial transactions, making a 2016 deadline appear less and less likely

European plans to introduce a tax on financial transactions have fallen into disarray, with ministers failing to meet a year-end deadline that would have resulted in the so-called "Tobin Tax" being introduced at the start of 2016.

Italy's Northern League calls for EU to be 'demolished'

Friday, 12 December 2014 01:02

In a European political landscape increasingly populated with insurgent, anti-system parties, Italy's extremist Northern League is the latest to profit from a groundswell of hostility to the European Union.

The League's 41-year-old leader, Matteo Salvini calls the euro a "criminal currency" and wants to demolish the Brussels consensus that has dominated European politics since the end of World War Two.